Sri Lanka

Project Management

Technical Product Management

Program Management

University Of Bedfordshire

Bachelor of Science - BSc (Honours)

Buwaneka De Silva

Associate Agile Coach

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Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Tableau

Jira

React Native

Python

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Problem-solving

Project management

Brand positioning

Branding

Cloud computing

Community management

Data visualisation

Prototyping

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

• Set the tone for Agile Practices, Metrics & Coaching Standards within the local organization. 
• Continuously improve teams & organizational standards of Agile practices & collaboration.
• Coach, mentor & facilitate conversations with on-shore & off-shore leads to span out the Agile adoption.

• Coaching teams in the technical verticals of the organization (Commercial Technology, Enterprise Technology, USFS Technology, International Technology & Platform Services & Digital Infrastructure)
• Coached teams to “be more agile” rather than “do agile” by being an advocate for Agile and DevOps.
• Assisted teams adhere to Agile practices by performing periodic checks based on assessing Agile maturity and publishing the same to measure improvement over time.
• Facilitated Agile teams to improve on their agile, engineering and quality practices using metrics and data driven approach via state-of-the-art agile project management tools and in-house developed dashboards.
• Strategically ideate, planned & implemented industry standards, practices and Agile Frameworks. (Change Management, SAFe, Scrum of Scrum)

Salary Grade - Senior Associate (Similar to a Manager/Senior Manager in a local organization)

A Scrum Master for teams working on Higher Ed software applications. I was apart of Chanel Partner Gateway (CPG), SOCKET & Platform - Enabling Services teams.

•  Facilitated scrum ceremonies for projects & scrum teams within the workstream.
•  Coached & educated teams on PMO & agile practices. 
•  Implemented best practices for reporting using Aha, Atlassian Suite, SmartSheets & Tableau. 
•  Planned & scheduled releases aligning to business priorities. 
•  Actively Supported on Keep the lights on (KTLO) & Eyes on glass monitoring, to implement engineering best practices and support maintenance activities. 
•  Collaborated with the project teams to plan for resource allocation for the projects. 
•  Represented the Offshore software development teams in the CAB Approval calls & ensured expected criterion was met above par. (Maintained 100% approval rate)
•  Facilitated emergency changes with C-Level stakeholders from both technical & business verticals. 
•  Actively contributed to the PMO analytics reporting using Tableau designs. 
• Directly contributed & managed cost saving initiatives (Approx. saving 100K USD per project/per anum)

Salary Grade - Senior Team Lead (Youngest)

• 3500+ hours coaching teams ranging from business functions to technical verticals of the organization (All 14 Portfolios of the organisation - Telco, Digital Transformation, Digital Services - BFSI, Service Delivery, PSI, Business Ops, Enterprise, PMO, ICT, IT, HR, Finance, Marketing & Sales).
• Planning & developing the overall agile roadmap, assessment frameworks & strategy for the organization.  
• Implementing agile in 70+ programs & projects throughout the organization.
• Trainings on agile tools & techniques. (Requirements engineering, roadmaps, portfolios, project management techniques & Atlassian suite configurations for the organization) 
•  Assessments / Audits - Designed & developed a self-assessment tool for ScrumMasters & Product Owners and conducted 50+ independent team level Agile audits.
•  Reporting - Designed & developed agile dashboards to meet the demands of CXOs & other stakeholders of the organization using the Atlassian Suite & Tableau.
• AgileOps - Setup Agile Operations for 20+ business/technical operations of the organization. 
• Culture - Maintain the ApiAgile ("WeareAgile") culture via various methods including gamification, EDMs, videos, news letters & interactive content.

Company Description - Dialog Axiata PLC is Sri Lanka’s flagship telecommunications service provider, which operates Dialog Mobile– the country’s largest mobile network. A subsidiary of the Axiata Group Berhad (formerly TM International), Dialog is one of the largest listed companies on the Colombo Stock Exchange in terms of market capitalisation. Dialog holds the distinction of being the first and only company in Sri Lanka to achieve a market capitalisation of USD 1 billion.

Salary Grade -  Senior Executive

• Developed proactive applications & worked on TFS CI/CD pipelines for internal business purposes.
• Migrated the SCCM/SCOM solution from on-prem to Azure.
• Trained with Icinga for network monitoring.
• Trained with Oracle Linux enterprise distribution.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 for systems administration and configuration.

Salary Grade - L5 (ATC Lowest Grade)

• Developed a claims processing application using the .NET framework MVC 4, Web API, WCF, LINQ, Angular 1.6 & MSSQL.
• Responsible for the detailed technical specifications document which included project estimates, technical diagrams & more.
• Represented the company in the President's Challenge Trophy Mercantile Swimming Championship 2016.

Salary Grade - L5 (ATC Lowest Grade)

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